ctdonath@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Carl T. Donath) (07/13/90)
It is possible to play rather high-quality sounds thru the IBM PC's speaker! Some people have written software that uses the PC's speaker as a 1-bit D/A converter doing delta modulation (i.e. it sounds real good). Do an anonymous FTP from ccb.ucsf.edu to get the REMAC.EXE program from the Pub/Sound_list directory. Get some of the .SND files while yer at it (Mac-sampled sounds clipped from The Simpsons, Star Wars, Star Trek, and others). This REMAC program is great for experimenting with algorithmic sounds - write a program to generate a sound file (say, the output of the bifurication algorithm) and, once the file is completed, it can be played back immediately. No downloading to a sampler, no programming a synth, just use the PC's speaker. - Carl